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7270066 Ice breaker (variants), method and system for single-support mooring and servicing ships  
To ensure the possibility of offshore shipping of a liquid medium, primarily oil, from an onshore tank farm into sea-going tankers in the winter time in the ice conditions by ensuring both mooring...
7150239 Method for aerating bodies of water  
A body of water is aerated by propelling in the body of water a water pumping arrangement including a sheath having a turning propeller that (a) sucks water from the body into the sheath interior...
7150434 Vehicle wake vortex modifier  
Wake vortices are made less detectable or reduced in their effect on nearby vehicles by re-orientation of vorticity about an axis in the direction of vehicle motion to transverse vorticity...
6062925 Service vessel operating method  
A service vessel that is designed for navigating both in the open sea and in ice conditions is provided with a demountable propeller nozzle. For an ice-free navigation period the propeller nozzle...
5996520 Icebreaking method and icebreaker  
A relatively wide vessel is assisted through an ice field by an icebreaker having a relatively narrow hull. The icebreaker includes two steerable propulsion mechanisms at the opposite ends...
5660131 Icebreaker attachment  
A self-powered icebreaker attachment for connection to a parent vessel. In the preferred embodiment, the icebreaker attachment includes a spoon-shaped bow, an ice knife positioned aft of the bow,...
5567078 Method for forming a sloped face ice control structure  
The present invention pertains to sloped-faced, ice control elements that are each spaced apart across a riverbed adjacent to a floodplain region. The elements arrest a breakup ice run. The size...
5325803 Icebreaking ship  
For icebraking ships whose forward quarter is designed like a pontoon with an underside rising obliquely forward, and having icebreaking configurations on its sides, the hull can be equipped on...
5218917 Icebreaking ship  
An icebreaking ship has a hull including a forward part and an aft part and a screw arrangement in the aft part of the ship. The screw arrangement is designed for propulsion of the ship in the...
5176092 Icebreaker bow and hull form  
An icebreaker ship has a V-shaped bow and an S-shaped stem line with a wedge extending from the bottom of the stem line below the design waterline of the ship towards the sides until maximum width...
5161477 Ice going ship  
A ship's hull designed for traffic in icy waters has a general form defining a bottom that is substantially horizontal in longitudinal section and has a central longitudinal keel line, and, at both...
5038695 Icebreaker  
For improving the headway and sternway icebreaking characteristics, the hull of a ship has the greatest width of the icebreaking waterline in the forebody and has trimming and ballasting in the...
5036781 Method and the means for removing ice from a ship's channel  
The method and the apparatus for removing ice from a ship's channel or from around the ship, to ease its navigation. The invention is characterized in that the propeller stream is used for removing...
4942837 Ice breaker  
An icebreaker hull having laterally projecting hull components which define inclined upwardly and rearwardly sloped faces arranged in part above and in part below the vessels normal water line, and...
4864950 Icebreaker  
For reducing the adhesive and frictional forces of snow and ice acting on the outer hull plating of an icebreaker and in particular static frictional forces when the ship becomes stuck in the ice,...
4860679 Ice breaker vessel  
An ice breaker vessel and a method for increasing maneuverability and protecting the propellers against broken ice when going backwards. The ice breaker has two stern propellers and a steering...
4781135 Ship hull  
A ship hull has a general frame form defining a bottom surface and two side surfaces. The bottom surface of the hull has a horizontal bottom section that extends longitudinally of the hull midway...
4732101 Stern apron for ice breakers  
The stern apron is constructed as a volume body tapering to a sharp end in streamlined manner towards the stern of the ship and which at its lower outer edges is in each case wider than in the...
4715305 Ship's hull  
A ship's hull has a general frame form defining a bottom surface and two side surfaces. The bottom section of the hull comprises a substantially vertical wedge-formed portion, which extends...
4702187 Bottom construction for a ship  
The invention relates to a ship that is adapted for operating in ice-filled waters and has a general frame form defining a substantially horizontal bottom surface, two side surfaces, a stern and a...
4666341 Mobile sea barge and plateform  
A mobile sea barge having a unitary lower hull which has sufficient buoyancy to float the entire barge, an upper hull spaced from the lower hull by a single, centrally-positioned, vertical member,...
4648342 Arrangement in vessels  
A vessel with a ballast system including a plurality of ballast tanks provided with means for feeding water into the tanks and expelling water therefrom and an air bubbling system including...
4644889 Sailboat keel  
A sailboat keel structure, wherein the keel has an elongated body with fore and aft edges, and a generally elliptical cross-section. An elongated slotted opening is formed along the aft edge...
4643121 Method of adding propulsive force to ice breaker  
A method of adding propulsive force to an ice breaker in the process of breaking ice in a frozen sea by utilizing the strong tractive force of a winch, in which a pile is first inserted in the ice,...
4636607 Method of enhancing an ice-breaking operation  
In order to perform an ice-breaking operation more readily or with a defined geometry, an ice breaking aid is employed by virtue of which the ice is irradiated with high-frequency oscillations such...
4597350 Mooring system and liquid cargo transfer facility for ice infested waters  
A mooring and liquid transfer column which is fixed to the floor of an offshore body of water for securing a marine vessel. The column is resiliently retained and cable supported to permit its...
4578000 Method of protection  
A method for protecting stationary constructions, located in water and surrounded by water, against strain caused by a moving ice field in said water. A protective structure is arranged around said...
4547093 Protection of vessels and equipment from moving ice  
An installation 18 is protected by a circular array of drag elements 2. Each drag element is anchored to the seabed and has teeth on its upper surface which penetrate, and decelerate, moving ice...
4543900 Shipboard ice lubrication system and jet pump for use therein  
An ice lubrication system for easing the passage of a ship through ice laden waters. A pressurized flow of water passes through a nozzle into the inlet of a mixing chamber comprising a venturi...
4532772 Method for producing model ice  
An improved method for producing an ice layer suitable for ship model ice tests on a water surface by means of a spraying process is presented. Said improvement comprises the steps of creating a...
4455958 Drillship canopy  
A canopy system for deployment around the periphery of a vessel floating on a body of water is disclosed primarily for use in connection with drillships in Arctic waters. The disclosed canopy...
4436046 Ice-breaking hull  
An icebreaker hull is disclosed having cutting edges and sloping ramps that substantially surround the icebreaker's forefoot and taper as they continue aft along the sides of the hull. The cutting...
4434741 Arctic barge drilling unit  
An improved marine drilling barge for use in ice-covered water is disclosed. The barge has, besides a conventional moon pool through which conventional marine drilling operations can proceed, a...
4433941 Structure for offshore exploitation  
A structure for use in exploiting arctic offshore areas where floating ice masses may be present. The structure is comprised of a floating hull having ice-breaking capabilities which is moored by a...
4428735 Propeller mount for icebreaker  
A propeller mount for deflecting ice away from the propeller of an icebreaker includes a wedge-shaped body, the front end of which is pointed, and the remainder of which flares rearwardly to direct...
4409918 Ice-breaking and conveying system  
A shipborne system for clearing a channel through ice comprises in combination with a prow-mounted icebreaker shape, a giant siphon including an intake leading to an upward passage which inclines...
4382419 Floating vessel with moon well and ice guard therefor  
Large vessel having an opening in the bottom of the hull said hull portion being provided with an upwardly and downwardly movable grid structure shielding the opening against ice flakes which pass...
4369725 Method and means for increasing the maneuverability of a ship in ice-covered waters  
The disclosed method for increasing the maneuverability of a ship in ice-covered waters is comprised of bringing generally vertical ice-crushing surfaces on one side of a ship into contact with an...
4365571 Ice disaggregation system  
Improved apparatus is disclosed for supporting the cutting teeth on the periphery of a rotating cylindrical drum ice cutter affixed to a floating arctic structure. The cutting teeth are...
4328760 Skirt construction  
A skirt system is disclosed in combination with a barge floating on a body of water, the barge having a roof extending over the body of water, for providing a substantial ice-free zone around a...
4326476 Navigation in ice covered waterways  
A navigation channel is made in the ice covering the surface of a waterway by propelling a vessel so that its bow breaks the ice to form a channel having a width of the beam of the ship and an...
4270476 Barge construction for warm air canopy ice-free zone  
A novel barge construction is disclosed herein for providing a substantially ice-free zone around a vessel out to at least 100 feet from the vessel. The barge comprises: (a) a hull including a bow,...
4252444 Apparatus for agitating liquids  
An apparatus and method are provided for agitating liquids, maintaining solids in suspension and breaking up surface ice on waterways is provided in which a base plate having a plurality of...
4245929 Arctic multi-angle conical structure  
An offshore structure which is able to withstand the ice forces imposed thereon by impinging ice sheets and other larger masses of ice wherein the structure has an upper conical portion coaxially...
4215756 Apparatus for preventing damage to the flexible skirt of an air cushion vehicle, by ice  
An air cushion vehicle has a plurality of webs extending out between adjacent skirt members, with a solid or tubular peripheral member attached to the web members at their forward parts. The web...
4208977 Icebreaking apparatus  
The invention relates to a water navigable vessel having an ice-breaking bow and a rotatable screw mounted on the front on the bow for the purpose of advancing the vessel up onto an ice layer and...
4117794 Ice melting system and method  
A heat transfer method for melting thick layers of ice advancing toward an object facing the ice is disclosed. Elongated grooves or corrugations are disposed in the exterior surface of the object...
4102144 Method and apparatus for protecting offshore structures against forces from moving ice sheets  
A stationary offshore platform is protected against damage from moving ice sheets by a conical shield surrounding the platform support structure and having means, such as a pneumatic biasing...
4083317 Method and apparatus for breaking ice with water  
Ice is broken with expenditure of less energy by pumping water from beneath the ice and discharging it in large quantities onto the surface of the ice. Breaking stress is provided by the weight of...
4080798 Arctic drilling base  
An arctic drilling barge to perform offshore activities in the shallow water, fast ice regions of the arctic seas. Optimal ice interaction is obtained by shaping the hull of the barge in the form...
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